I have a kid and a wife who can't stand Magic, so I'm generally only able to play the night time ones (in my eastern time zone). I think I've played one daytime Vintage daily ever.

The night time ones got bumped back to 10:00 PM on the weekend nights that I could play. Since I usually wake up around five in the morning I am dead tired by ten. I really don't feel like playing at that time, so I've been skipping them.

I certainly have skipped a ton of them since August of last year. When the events changed it made me want to play less.

As far as everyone else, I can't speak for them. But in the old days if someone messaged me to say that the daily needed one more person I would join just to make the tournament fire. I'm not really inclined to want to do that anymore. If I'm going to spend the money I'd rather enjoy myself.

For me, it's mainly the value proposition. At 6 tix, I could play it regularly without feeling too bad if I don't do great. But at 12, the light bump in competitiveness over Tournament Practice games (which don't take my whole evening) stops being worth it for me. At this point I only play when I see that one or two more are needed for it to fire.

For me, it's mainly the value proposition. At 6 tix, I could play it regularly without feeling too bad if I don't do great. But at 12, the light bump in competitiveness over Tournament Practice games (which don't take my whole evening) stops being worth it for me. At this point I only play when I see that one or two more are needed for it to fire.

Wizards decided that for six tickets they literally will give you nothing.
The cheapest events are eight ticket leagues. I'd play leagues but we don't get them.
I don't want to get too much into it because it took me a while to not be really disillusioned with the whole system. But it's clear that the company heads decided that MTGO was just not expensive enough. Never mind that packs arw msrp for digital objects...

@Islandswamp Vintage leagues would certainly be perfect. I really don't understand why Wizards won't implement those. They already have other leagues so it can't be much technical work (coding) to allow vintage to have one too.

After Vintage Dailies stoppped showing in the event selection screen I had to search for a while to find a way to join. At first I wondered if some folks just can't find them, but this doesn't seem like a plausible explanation in a long run. I am interested in an answer as well.

EDIT: Aaand another fail, 20 minutes ago 7 people showed up This one used to fire...

I still have enough play points to keep playing for free, and I usually win enough to not have to pay.
But I have had a couple dailies in a row where I didn't and I had to pay $12 to play. I wonder what drives someone who loses more often than they win to keep playing. I think that the people who are shelling out money again and again and never winning anything might be quitting and that means the events aren't firing.
Vintage receives less promotion than any format, so attracting new players for the online platform can be difficult.

@Smmenen Of course it's a Wizard's fault. I'm just saying that if you care about playing in the event then you try to find a solution, not just give up on it. The possibility that so many people would do the latter or not be able to find the way to join just feels strange to me. But I hope it's the case, because that means fixing this bug should revert things back to normal.